Well (gold) point.

[Origin]

Shao, small; Ze, water depression, meaning acupoint. The fingertip of the cave is the hand greater yang small intestine meridian (SI) well point, the meridian qi is small and small at the beginning, and is tied with Shaochong (HT9), hence the name.

[Location]

Shaoze (SI1) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu‧Benshu: "The end of the little finger";
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "The claws are removed and one point is trapped" ;
• Qianjin Yaofang‧: "On the outside of the little finger end of the hand"; that is, the 1-minute depression behind the ulnar corner of the little finger nail profile.

[Anatomy]

• Nerve: the palmar proper nerve of the ulnar nerve and the dorsal digital nerve.
• Blood vessels: refers to the arterial network formed by the proper palmar artery and the dorsal digital artery.

[Manipulation]

Puncture shallowly 0.2 to 0.3 inches. Moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

Clear away heat, disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx, and clearing breasts.

• Classical: Hanre Inability to sweat, headache, coldness, pharyngitis, tongue curling, hot mouth and irritability, heart pain, shortness of breath, chest hypochondriac pain, cough, acne, jaundice, epistaxis, arm pain, breast swelling, postpartum agalactia, malaria, apoplexy, epilepsy, ocular nebula, deafness, strong tongue and inability to speak, strong nape, no use of the little finger, dry throat, hematemesis, wind phlegm .
• Modern: insufficient lactation, mastitis, schizophrenia, forearm pain, unconsciousness.

[Recipe]

• Malaria and no sweating: Shaoze (SI1), Fuliu (KI7), Kunlun (BL60).
• pterygium: Shaoze (SI1), Ganshu (BL18).
• Gynecomastia: (1) Shaoze (SI1), Taiyang (EX-HN5). (2) Shaoze (SI1) , (foot)林cry.
• Insufficient milk secretion: Shaoze (SI1), Rugen (ST18), Tanzhong (CV17), Hegu (LI4) .